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Thank you for your continued patronage for NEC Storage products. Regarding the vulnerability issue of processors with the speculative execution or out of order execution function which has been detected by the third party organization and notified by a number of research institutions and corporations, we would like to inform you of the following announcement.

NEC Storage products are not affected by the vulnerability issue. In order to exploit the vulnerabilities, it is necessary to execute the malicious code on the targeted system(s) but NEC Storage products do not allow the execution of external code. As a result, these products are protected from exploitation of the security vulnerabilities.

Information on the Vulnerability

If the vulnerabilities pointed out this time (CVE-2017-5715、CVE-2017-5753、CVE-2017-5754) are exploited to make an attack, the memory data in the affected products could be illegally obtained.

If the malicious program is not executed on the system, the system cannot be affected by the attack exploiting those vulnerabilities.

There is no possibility of data falsification exploiting the vulnerability.